PRESHYTKIUANS. 



Woman's Board; for home mis-.ii. us, $11,450; 

 total receipts, including those for rimrH. 

 tioii innl other receipts, $4:i,H71. The mi ion 

 ,ka. Japan, had Hi mi. ionarics (men aii'l 

 women), 115 native laborers, 10 churches with fr.M 

 communicants, 1 school with KM) pupils, ami re- 

 turned (i;t additions. The mission in .Mexico re- 

 turned 2 stations, 4 missionaries, 3 native help- 

 er-. 1 church with 9 members, and :J schools with 

 I '.is pupils. 



VII. I'rrslMterian Church in Canada. 

 Tin- statistical ret urns of this Church, as present- 

 ed to the (ieneral Assembly in .June, show that the 

 niimU'r of churches and stations under pastoral 

 supply was 1,709, or 151 less than in the pre- 

 ceding year; of sittings in churches, 401,520; 

 of families connected with congregations and 

 stations, 83.3S9 ; of single persons not connect- 

 ed with families in oonjrregatiom, 14,439: of 

 communicants, 100,102, showing an increase of 

 2.112: of additions during the year on pro- 

 fession of faith, 10,128; attendance on Sabbath 

 schools. 127.890. Total income of the Church, 

 $2,002.810. with $59,483 in addition raised on 

 the mission stations. The contributions for home 

 missions amounted to $30,000 in the eastern 

 section and $111,988 in the western section. 

 Services were held in 1,050 stations, in which 

 12,509 Presbyterian families were represented, 

 besides others not connected with the Church. 

 One hundred and ninety-three congregations had 

 been aided by the Augmentation fund to the ex- 

 tent of $33,780 in raising the salaries of their 

 pastors to not less than $750 per annum. The 

 income of the French Evangelization fund had 

 been $58,000. Its work, including colportage, 

 mission schools, preaching stations, and regular- 

 ly organized churches, had been done chiefly in 

 the Province of Quebec, but extended also to 

 portions of the maritime provinces, Ontario, and 

 St. Anne, 111. Ninety-three stations were served. 

 The receipts for foreign missions, including the 

 balance from the preceding year, had been $87,- 

 180, in addition to which the woman's foreign 

 missionary societies had provided $40,000. 

 Missions were in operation in the New Hebrides, 

 Trinidad, China, and Central India, and among 

 the Indians in the Northwest. The Mission Com- 

 mittee had $8,000 on hand for the foundation of 

 a mission to the Jews, and recommended that 

 steps be taken at once to establish such a mis- 

 sion in Palestine. 



General Assembly. The General Assembly 

 met in Kingston, Ontario. June 10. The Rev. 

 Thomas Wardrope, D. D., of Guelph, was chosen 

 moderator. The returns from the presbyteries 

 of their votes on the overture prescribing that 

 " the discipline of the Church shall not be ex- 

 orcised in regard to marriage with a deceased 

 wife's sister or a deceased wife's niece," showed 

 that the overture had been defeated. The As- 

 sembly declared upon this that "the matter 

 should now take end." An overture providing 

 that students in Presbyterian colleges be allowed 

 to prosecute their studies during the summer 

 season was.sent down to the presbyt cries. Keg- 

 ulations were adopted concerning the course of 

 instruction in the colleges, one of the provisions 

 of which contemplates a service of one year in 

 the mission field before settlement of the candi- 

 date. The report on temperance asserted the 



conviction of the Avmb|y "thai in the matter 

 of legislation DOthinf sbonof prolnl.ition rijfid- 

 ly enforced by tin- pro|-r authorities xhould 

 ever be accepted a* final orsati-fa< lory, and that 

 it is the duty of tho Dominion 1'arliam. M 

 ad such a law.' i .lily further Alt- 



proved of temperance orgiini/aiions jr. 

 Church similar to that working in the Chun 1. 

 of Ireland, and din-ded i| m t local church an- 

 thor;ti(ssee that the principle* ,,f . 

 are projH-rly advocated in tin- pnl.lic sehoola. 

 The value of Young People's or Christian Kn- 

 deavor societies was dis< ued,and the Assembly 

 resolved "that in order to develop their Chris- 

 tian graces the young people be thoroughly or- 

 ganized for Christian Work." The subject Of a 

 "consensus creed" was* referred to a committee 

 composed of the delegates apiwiii ted to attend 

 the Presbyterian Council. The >->\x>riot the 

 Committee on Civil and Religious Rights recom- 

 mended that to counteract the effects of the 

 growth of ultramontanism, the people every- 

 where should be educated in both secular and 

 religious matters to think and act for themselves 

 as the Christian law requires: and ministers 

 should take frequent occasion to instruct their 

 people on this subject, and inform them fullv re- 

 garding "ultramontane errors." Respectfully 

 acknowledging the receipt of a memorial on the 

 labor question, 'the Assembly expressed sympa- 

 thy with every wise effort " to develop the fac- 

 ulties of man, to improve his social conditions, 

 to redress injustice, and to effect needed re- 

 forms," and, trusting that any evilsin the condi- 

 tion of different classes of the community might 

 as far as possible be met and removed, ex- 

 pressed the conviction that they could onlv be 

 permanently met and removed by the applica- 

 tion of the principles of the Gospel of Christ. 



VIII. Free Church of Scotland. The 

 General Assembly met in Edinburgh. May 22. 

 The Rev. Prof. Thomas Smith was chosen mod- 

 erator. The Committee on the Confession of 

 Faith reported that it had determined that the 

 best plan of procedure in the case was to con- 

 sider a declaratory act, and accordingly report- 

 ed such a bill, which declares, in substance, 



That in holding and teaching the divine purpose 

 of grace, the Church earnestly proclaims us ntuiuiinff 

 in the forefront of the revelation of grace the love of 

 God Father and Son and Holy Spirit- t> -.innere; 

 that all who hear the (Jot-pel are warranted and re- 

 quired to believe to the wiving <>f their souls; that 

 the Confession is not to be lu 1.1 as teaching that any 

 who die in infancy are lost, or that men are foreor- 

 dained to death irrespective of their >wn sin ; or that 

 man's whole nature is so corrupt but what th- 

 main " tokens of his greatness us created in the image 

 of God." 



A minute was adopted that 



The Assembly approve generally of the report, and 

 return their thanks to the committee. eBpMUUJ t" 

 the convener. They approve of the pn>]><<Hv<i former 

 a declaratory aet. ami resolve to wiul it down to 

 presbvteries as an overture under the Harrier act- 

 . . . the General Assembly have .-. ni with satisfac- 

 tion that the Committee on" tl M "f *aUh, 

 after repeated conference, have l<n led to ado] 

 umininiouslv u resolution in regard to holy Scripture. 

 The Assembly approve of the resolution. and.regK 

 in); it as seasonable and fitted to U- lulpnil, ther 

 adopt it it-* their own as follows, vis. : The General 

 Assembly find that tlu-rv api*urs to be no adequate 



